On Mer, 2003-08-06 at 07:24, Petko Manolov wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Oliver Neukum wrote:
>
> > GFP_DMA has no place in USB drivers, as its meaning is inconsistent
> > across architectures.
>
> The patch looks ok to me, although GFP_DMA used to mean that the allocated
> memory will be contiguo
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 6. August 2003 08:24 schrieb Petko Manolov:
> > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> >
> > > GFP_DMA has no place in USB drivers, as its meaning is inconsistent
> > > across architectures.
> >
> > The patch looks ok to me, although GFP_
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:35:04AM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> GFP_DMA has no place in USB drivers, as its meaning is inconsistent
> across architectures.
Applied, thanks.
greg k-h
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Am Mittwoch, 6. August 2003 08:24 schrieb Petko Manolov:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Oliver Neukum wrote:
>
> > GFP_DMA has no place in USB drivers, as its meaning is inconsistent
> > across architectures.
>
> The patch looks ok to me, although GFP_DMA used to mean that the allocated
> memory will be c
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> GFP_DMA has no place in USB drivers, as its meaning is inconsistent
> across architectures.
The patch looks ok to me, although GFP_DMA used to mean that the allocated
memory will be contiguous and taken from the dma-able memory. If this is
no longer nee
Am Mittwoch, 6. August 2003 10:33 schrieb Petko Manolov:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Oliver Neukum wrote:
>
> > Am Mittwoch, 6. August 2003 08:24 schrieb Petko Manolov:
> > > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > >
> > > > GFP_DMA has no place in USB drivers, as its meaning is inconsistent
> > >
Alan Cox wrote:
GFP_DMA means ISA DMAable memory (low 16Mb), its obsolete and you should
be using the pci_alloc/dma_alloc interfaces in 2.6-test
Agree about "don't use GFP_DMA with USB".
But there's no way to use pci_alloc or dma_alloc with USB.
Instead, read Documentation/usb/dma.txt ... those A
